270 ©F FLCWtRS. SECT. XVIII, 



only need be named, the early oval thin (helled, and the 

 common rounds or royal walnut. All the others feein 

 to be only feminal variations from the Lift, which is 

 juflly reckoned the befl fruit. Procure trees from feves 

 to ten years old, as they feldom bear till about twenty 

 yea.-* of aA'« See pages 76, 10ii. 



SECTION XVIIf. 



OF FLOWERS. 



Flowers, the fole luxury which Nature knew, 

 In Eden's pure and guiltlefs garden grew ; 

 Cay without toil, and lovely without art, 

 They fprung to cheer the fenfe, and glad the heart. 



Barbauld. 



FLOWERS, as to their cultivation, are clafTed into 

 annuals, biennials, and perennials. . Annuals are thofe 

 that are {'own and flower, and generally die within a 

 year. Biennjpts are thole that are fown one year, and 

 flower and generally die the next; though fome of thele, 

 by (owing early, and forwarding by a little heat, will 

 blow the fame year. Perennials are thofe that do not 

 flower the year they are fown, but the next, and con- 

 tinue to hve years afterwards, fome fewer, fome more : 

 Oi this clafs there is a great variety, (perhaps fifty to 

 one of the lad) moftly fibrous rooted, fome flefhy, 

 fome bulbt . , and fome tuberous, &c. Moll of the 

 perennials aie annual in their ilaiks. which die down 



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